Angelou uses ideal pairs, such as a caring nursery and a gentle kitchen, to show the contrast between how things should be and reality.

This is the first time we see Dickinson uses the first person in this poem. It seems to be a turn from describing hope to explaining how hope is relevant to her life.

This image seems to play on the speaker's fatigue. When someone looks through a sheet of ice, they can see through it, however, their vision is somewhat warped. This also happens when someone is extremely tired.

This sudden halt within the poem's rhyme scheme stresses the importance of "his" experience with the snow.

Doty may be putting a spin on the new use of this word that has a painful past.

This "naked support" justifies the unique beauty presented to us a line later. Doty seems to make beauty the product of passion.

Doty oddly rhymes "name" and "frame" here, but chooses not to explicitly rhyme anywhere else.

These unusual line breaks give the poem a new aspect of physical appeal.

It is interesting how we go from giving the flower a characteristic such as "to the summer sweet" to giving it the characteristic of infection.

Should we define this as "fundamental" or "important"?